Sanitary expansible roost



June 18, 1929. J. c. woBERMlN v SANITARY EXPANSIBLE RoosT.

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Filed Dec. 20; 1927 d (fl/ob er1/zzn IN VENTOR I 'o ,o /l

ATTORNEY.

June 18, 1929. J. c. woBERMlN 1.717.537

SANITARY EXPANSIBLE ROST Filed pecl. 2o, 1927 2 sheets-sheet ffhlaerm n Patented June 18, 1929.

UNITED S'IAflrzsA PATENT apples. j

JOHN c. WOBERMIN, or niwsn, COLORADO.

SANITARY EXPANSIBLE BOOST.

y application sled member 2o, 1927'. 'sensi No.' 241,3ea

A further object is to `providey a sani-v tary roost. y n y Other objects will appear iii the course oi the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accomp-` panying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a sectional view of a chicken house constructed in accordance with my invention and showing my improved chicken roosty expanded;

Figure 2 is a ytopl'plan kview of the chicken roost expanded; n

Figure 3 is aI sectional view one of the perches; f y Figure 4 is a fragmentary' vertical section through the apron, roller and brush of the roost shown in Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a side elevation of a modilied form of roost and apron, the pan, the floor and the wall being shown in section; e

, through Figure 6 is a fragmentary front elevation ot' one of the perches, showing the means for attaching it' to the lazy-tongs; In the drawing, I have illustrated a hen house Vof conventional or ordinary form.y Disposed within the hen house are a plu rality ot supporting members 10 which may be located adjacent one wall of the hen house, and attached to this wall in any suitable manner and attached to this member 10' is the vertically extending bar 11. Mounted upon rthisbarare a plurality ot' clips 12. One of these clips may be permanently orL rigidly fastened to `the bar and the other clips being slidably mounted thereon. This bar and the supporting member 10 may extendI nearly they full height of the hen house or to anyfdesired elevation, but in the drawing the bar is supposed to be about live and a half feet high/ and the lowermost wall of the hen house will be about seven feet high. lLhe hen house isshown. as provided with a concretefloor 13.

Pvotally attached to the clips are the bars 14 ot a-lazy-tongs- These bars 14 disposed 1n two series, thek barsl of one series extending at right angles tothe `bars of the other series'and pivoted toeach other at 15 lnj the usual and well known manner.

Each of the upwardly and forwardly eX- tendingvbars at its upper end carries the transversely extending perches or roosts 16. Each of these roosts, as shown in FigureB, is longitudinally grooved, as at 17, and disposed in this groove is a strip of felt which is kept soaked in kerosene y of keeping of lice;

As illustrated, each ofthe upwardly-`and"` forwardly extending bars 14, which bars are madey of metaha're formed so as to provide for the purpose i a forwardly extending flange 18y upon which the perch 17'isdisposed. (Each perch is sup@A ported by las many lazy-tongs as may'j be i found necessary "as,", `for instance, two located at the ends of `the perch, kand pref# erably the lazy-tongs are of such size and' f may be expanded to such position that when Vexpanded tlielazy-tongs will extend from the'rearwall to they front wall ot the hen housefwit-h the lperches disposed abouta toot apart. By making the arms 14 which y support the three lowest perches shorter than the other arms and making the: last three arms vlonger than the other arms, it is pos?y sible to lprovide for a greater number of perches and at thesame time provide for conn tracting thelazy-tongs intor a ysmallercoin-M` pass than wouldbe possible' if arms of the lazy-tongs were all of the saine `length or extended upward tothe saine height. In

order to supporttheiniddle portion otrthe lazy-tongs, `one or more recesses 19 are provided, these being pivoted to one ot the pivots ot the lazy-tongs, as at 20, in suchposition that it will rest upontheioor when the lazy-tongs ris either contractedr or eX# panded. n l y y n ,i

Under ,some circumstances f it is desirable that meansube'provided 'to catch ythe droppings rfrom the roosts, and to this end I have provided a pan and a flexible apron which will be drawn'out asthe roost is expanded and whichwill contract as theroost is contracted, and` provide means vwhereby fany droppings caught upon this canvas ymay be discharged into the pan. As illustrated iny lFigurel 1, I'iprovide ka panv 21 mounted in y any suitable manner at t-he rear of thechickn en coop as, for instance, upon therear wall or upon the, vertical'q members/10, this pan yhavingV a width,"I of course,y equal to the ldistance between the lazy-tongs. It there are A afplurality of lazy-tongs supporting the .up-

rights, then therewill be a plurality of pans located one between each pair of lazy-tongs.V

YAssociated with each pan isa roller l22 which is mounted above the'pan and at'the rear end thereof, and disposed over this roller is a canvas or other flexible apron which'is adapted tobe kwound upY upon the roller. yTheroller is preferably a spring roller, ,thef spring being designated- 24," whichy will fact toy vwithdraw the lie'xible' apron. This'apron .passes over a- `roller 25 j disposed at 'the orwardend of the pan adj jacent the front wall thereof, and this roller is designed to hold the apron upagainst i a brush 26.

Tlieforward end ot therapron is connected lto ironsl 27 attached to and projecting from the' forward end of Ythe lazy-tongs or` the apron may be attached 'directly'to the klaZv-tongs. .Qn the other hand, and preferably, the vapron ,will be provided 'with member 28`which will latch into the 4irons 27,

and Ya rope 29 is provided 7whereby"theapron maybe pulled,outindependently of the -lazytongs, if desired. rfhis 'canvas apron may be impregnated with kerosene, gasoline ory other liquid which Vwill be inimical tofmites or Aother vermin. It will be obvious now that lwhen the roost ispulled r'out or expanded, the apron will alsof'be drawn out even with thelazy-tongs or inde! pendentlyithereof and "held in its expanded position by `any ysuitable means.y VVhenthe apronv is retracted by'the spring roller 22,l thebrush '26 will sweep thecdroppings from the upper face of the apron into the pan.

lnFig'ui-e 5, Iillustrate a modiied Jform of roost anda modiied means of mounting the apron. The lazy-tongs is' as betoredescribed, and is formed of thelir'iksr 14 piv-V oted to each other at'15,rca.rry1ng Vthe roostsY 16 and the .uprights' 17 just as Vbefore described, and these lazy-tongs are/connected to the clips 12 also as previously described mounted uponcthe upright 'rod or bar ll. The sliding supper-tilt), however, is omitted andthe last link V142301? the lazy-tongs is extended downward beyond the other links lot' the lazy-tongs and carries, a wheel29 which bears lupontherllo'or. Certain of the links of 'the lazy-tongs are'extended and at i the intersection'fcarrythe'rollers 30,

DisposedV at the rearendot the hen house is4 the panV 31,"and disposed `slightly above this pan VYisthe spring'roller 32. Passing around this roller is ther canvas apron 33 which rests' uponthe top oi' the supporting rollers'SO and vat its tree'end is provided ywith hooks "Blite engage vover the irons 35' Ywhichv project from the members14'-. Cords or ropes 3,6 are attachedV to theseY hooks so thatthe canvas may be pulled out, orother meansimightrbe provided for this purpose. Disposed above the pan and adjacent its forward vendV is a rotatable brush 37 which r@bears upontheupper surface of the apron perches,larersupported inward of the laZyj tongsby inwardly extending brackets 39and 40, the brackets 39 extending to the' ends of the roosts' and the brackets 40 extending toward intermediate pivots ofthe lazy-tongs upward and inward lto intermediate port-ionsv ofthe roosts or perches. Thus these roosts or perches are less in length than the canvas apron so .that all droppings will be sure to drop upon the rcanvas apron and not laterally outside ot the same. Here j again the canvas apron may beV impreg' na'ted to a greater orV less extent with kerosene,insecticide or `other liquid 'ifde-k sirefd. It will be seenthat theseY drop boards formed by the canvas aprons not only provide means for collecting the droppings but keep the yhen house clean andprovide for a 'const-'ant' cleansing ot these drop aprons, and

also provide means whereby a relatively large lquantity of 'insecticide lmay be 'volatiliZedto impregnate the atmosphere.

In the use of this device, the lazy-tongs may be expanded by simplyftaking hold of theytorwardl perch and pulling both sets 'of `lazy-tongs outward, or the lazytongs may ics j be Vcontracted by Vpushing inward upon the c outermost perch. lVhen thelaZy-tongs is contracted, the greaterportionof the. hen house' will` be entirelyunencumbered; At night the yroosts may occupy nearly the ywhole lfloor space, whereas when the lazy-tongs are compressed" the roosts 'will 'only occupy about one-third or less of the floor space, thus making it easytofclean the'tloor of the hen house and *keepy it in Vproper condiay llt) tion. Because of the fact that the perchesy Y have a stripsoaked in kerosene or other? insecticide, this roost c is rendered very sanitary, as this stripk will prevent mites or otherinsects from climbingup the posts and onto the towls and at the same time kfowls coming in contact with the strip will 'become smeared, which will tend to keep the f mites away.

I do not wish to be limited to the vexact details which I have illustrated, as these might bemodified vin Vmany ways without departing from 'the spirit ot the invention as g deiined in the appended claims. V

1,717,537 i n j 3 I claim:

l. A hen house having a plurality of parallel perches, a spring roller mounted in the rear of the hen house, a flexible apron mounted upon thespring roller and adapted to be pulled out to a position beneath the perches or wound up upon the spring roller, a catch pan disposed beneath' the roller, and means for brushing the droppings from the apron into said pan.

2. A hen house having a plurality of parallel perches, a drop pan disposed at the rear of the hen house and extending parallel to the perches and below the same, a spring roller mounted in connection with the pan, an apron of textile fabric mounted upon the roller and adapted to be wound thereon, means for holding the apron pulled out, and a brush mounted above the upper surfacefof the apron and acting to brush the droppings therefron'i into the ypan as the apron is retracted. j v

3. A hen house having a plurality of lazyfongs operatively supported adjacent one wall of the hen house and expansible toward Jthe other wall of the hen house7 uprights mounted upon the lazy-tongs and movable outward or inward with the expansion or contraction thereof, a pan mounted at the rear of the hen house and below the lazytongs, a spring roller mounted in connection with the pan, a fabric apron wound upon the spring` roller,'1neans whereby the apron may be connected to the forward endsof the lazy-tongs to thereby hold the apron eX- tended, and means disposed above the apron and above the panfand adapted to clean the apron of droppings as the apron is retracted by the roller.

4. A hen house having a plurality of lazytongs operatively supported adjacent onewall of the hen house and expansible toward the other wall of the hen house, uprights mounted upon thelazy-tongs and movable outward or inward withthe expansion or `contraction thereof, a pan mounted at the rear of the hen house and below the lazytongs, a' spring roller mounted iny connection with the pan, a fabric apron wound upon the "f spring roller, meanswhereby the apron may be connected to the forward ends of the lazyf tongs to thereby hold the apron extended,

and means disposed above the apron and` above the pan andadapted to clean the apron of droppings as the apron is retracted by the roller, the. lazy-tongs having supporting rollers at intervals over which `said apron passes.

5. In a hen house, a plurality of lazy-tongs,

mounted adjacent onewall of the hen house and eXpansible toward the other wallthereof, perches mounted upon said lazy-tongs and movable outward/or inwardwith the expansion or contraction thereof, a pan disposed at the rear ofthe hen house beneathv the rear portion of the lazy-tongs, a spring roller mounted above the pan at the rear thereof, an apron of flexible material wound upon the spring roller and having means at its forward end whereby it may be detachably engaged with the forward ends of the lazy-tongs, and a rotatable brush mounted above the forwardend of the pan and above the apron, and a belt connection'between the spring roller and said brush acting` to rotate the brush in adirection to sweep droppings from the upper surface of the apron into the panas the apron is contracted,

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature.

JOHN o. WOBERMIN. 

